Think back to your most engaging experience as a student. What made it so exhilarating and memorable? What made it so effective? Such questions about student engagement obsessed the author of this book from his earliest days as a teacher. Today, he travels the globe to keynote and coach educators on the topics most relevant to student success. In the intervening decades, he refined his teaching craft, observed the most captivating teachers, and studied the best speakers to reverse engineer a student engagement formula. The result is the ATLAS model-a simple, five-point roadmap for capturing student engagement in the first moments of class sustaining it all the way to the last. This book holds both learner needs and teacher wisdom in equal importance. Central to this is a definition of student engagement that-once and for all-clarifies the teacher's actionable role. Teachers will finish this book with a plan in hand and the full confidence that they are ready to be engagement pros. And as is always the case with this author's books, readers will laugh and have a lot of fun along the way.